TASEmulators / TASEmulators/BizHawk
Add opt-in for firmware scanning to look inside archives
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App: EmuHawk
help wanted
Request: Feature/Enhancement
- Dominant language
- C#
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Description
This would benefit casual players whose knowledge of emulation ends at knowing which things to download.
I think this feature is blocked by FirmwareManager not using HawkFile. I'm also curious as to how slow it is in practice; opt-in might not be necessary.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reading FirmwareManager and HawkFile to understand how firmware files are currently discovered and whether archive contents can be inspected. Measure the current scanning behavior before deciding whether opt-in is needed. Done means an optional archive-scanning path works for casual users without making the default scan unexpectedly slow.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- csharp
- Domain
- backend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100